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A vast molecular cloud, long invisible, is discovered near our solar system
An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is one of the largest single structures in the sky and among the closest ...
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Multi-spacecraft radio observations trace the heliospheric magnetic field
Solar flares accelerate energetic electrons that escape into interplanetary space, guided by the Parker spiral magnetic field, and are responsible for the generation of the interplanetary Type III solar radio bursts. With ...
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Apr 25, 2025
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Circinus West: A dark nebula harboring a nest of newly formed stars
A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image captured from Chile with the 570-megapixel Department of Energy–fabricated Dark Energy Camera—one of the most powerful digital cameras ...
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Apr 25, 2025
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New framework suggests stars dissolve into neutrons to forge heavy elements
Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of physics. In the search for conditions suitable for these elements via "nucleosynthesis," a Los Alamos ...
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Apr 25, 2025
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Disk discovery changes views on star and planet formation
A study led by Paolo Padoan, ICREA research professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB), is challenging the understanding of planetary disk formation around young stars.
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Apr 25, 2025
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New solar instrument captures first high-resolution images at world's largest telescope
The Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS) located in Freiburg, Germany, has installed a high-precision measuring instrument for the world's largest solar telescope, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar ...
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Apr 24, 2025
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High velocity gas-clump in Milky Way neighborhood may be a dark galaxy
A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found evidence suggesting that a "gas clump" in a fast-moving cloud in the neighborhood of the Milky Way ...
Largest imaging spectro-polarimeter achieves first light at solar telescope
The U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's most powerful solar telescope, operated by the NSF National Solar Observatory (NSO) near the summit of Maui's Haleakalā, reached a major ...
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Apr 24, 2025
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Seeing the waves that make the sun's corona so hot
If you happen to be enjoying a sunny day, thank the bright surface of the sun, known as the photosphere. At a piping hot temperature of about 5,800 K, the photosphere provides nearly all the sunlight Earth receives. But for ...
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Apr 24, 2025
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Fifteen new giant radio galaxies discovered with ASKAP
Using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), astronomers have discovered 15 new giant radio galaxies with physical sizes exceeding 3 million light years. The finding was reported in a research paper published ...
Webb spots clues of a black hole at the heart of nearby galaxy M83
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered evidence that suggests the presence of a long-sought supermassive black hole at the heart of the nearby spiral galaxy Messier 83 (M83). This surprising ...
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Apr 24, 2025
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Dark matter search: Dimming starlight may signal passage of dark compact objects
The detection of dark matter, an elusive form of matter believed to account for most of the universe's mass, remains a long-standing goal within the physics research community. As this type of matter can only emit, reflect ...
The sun's natural gravitational lensing is more powerful than you thought
Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.
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Apr 23, 2025
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Why Webb may never be able to find evidence of life on another world
The exoplanet K2-18b is generating headlines because researchers announced what could be evidence of life on the planet. The JWST detected a pair of atmospheric chemicals that on Earth are produced by living organisms. The ...
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Apr 23, 2025
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TESS detects new sub-Neptune exoplanet more than three times larger than Earth
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting a bright G-type star. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-3493 b is more ...
Eye on infinity: NASA celebrates Hubble's 35th year in orbit
In celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 35 years in Earth orbit, NASA is releasing an assortment of compelling images recently taken by Hubble, stretching from the planet Mars to star-forming regions, and a neighboring ...
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Apr 23, 2025
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The Webb Telescope is making incredible discoveries: It may go dark
The political news these days is enough to make some Chicagoans wish they were a million miles away. But consider this: Even in the depths of space, there's no escape from politics.
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Apr 23, 2025
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Galaxies at 'cosmic noon': Research gives deep dive into universe's wild growth spurt
A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star formation and black hole growth at "cosmic noon"—a mysterious epoch 2–3 billion years after the ...
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Apr 22, 2025
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What is the most powerful telescope in the world?
Just how powerful is the world's most powerful telescope?
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Apr 22, 2025
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Scientists improve gravitational wave identification with machine learning
A study published in Physical Review Letters outlines a new approach for extracting information from binary systems by looking at the entire posterior distribution instead of making decisions based on individual parameters.
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